WORLD DATA BANK  --  Amiga Version

	Volume 2:  Data File #4, Data File #3			9-89

	WDB is a project which began with geographical survey data col-
lected by the CIA and released a few years ago to the public domain under
the Freedom Of Information Act.  The quantity of data was staggering (en-
compassing many, many reels of 9-track tape), and it remained for one
Fred Pospichal of Bellevue, Nebraska to reduce the data to microcomputer
proportions (i.e.: five, count 'em, FIVE MS-DOS disks worth) by filtering
all but every nth value.

	Here now is a version of the World Data Bank for the Amiga, using
the same data as the IBM version (though in proper High-order/Low-order
format for the 68000), and two programs with which to view it.  One sets
up a standard Mercator projection, and the other a "satellite view" from
space.  While these are not blazingly fast (yet), they are several orders
of magnitude faster than the earliest versions.  Similarly, they are not
polished efforts, but at this point they finally have user interfaces that
now allow them to be passed around for public viewing.  Warranty?  What
warranty?

	The main data file is broken into 4 subsets, each of which provides
progressively coarser resolution, along with progressively less memory
requirement and progressively more speed.  The data file you choose to use
will therefore be determined by available memory, time, and interest in
detail.  The full data set will require at least 1.5 Meg to run.  The
smallest data sets should run in 512k.

	There are two volumes of archives here;  Volume 1 contains the pro-
grams with source code and the smallest data set, Volume 2 contains the
next largest two data sets.  The two remaining data sets are too large to
be electronically transferred (the largest is over 1 Meg).  If you're
merely curious about the program, you'll get the idea from Volume 1 alone.
You only need Volume 2 if you're gonna be a fanatic like the rest of us in
Omaha.